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Project Name Data (Last Modified On 10/23/2012)
 

Flora Data (Last Modified On 10/23/2012)
Species CYPERUS ESCULENTUS L.
PlaceOfPublication Sp. P1. 45. 1753
Synonym Cyperus fulvescens Liebm. Dansk. Vid. Selsk. Skr. V. 2:22. 1851.
Description Plants perennial, with long stolons ending in small tubers; the culms 10-60 cm. high; inflorescence of 5-10 lax heads on simple or compound rays; leaves 2-7 mm. wide; bracts leaf-like; the spikelets linear, 5-12 mm. long, yellowish, scales not carinate, many-nerved; achene obovate-oblong, 1.5 mm. long, trigonous, with concave sides, dull gray, minutely reticulate.
Distribution In coastal sands and waste places; temperate and tropical areas of both hemis- pheres.
Note Not recorded by Standley. This species is sometimes cultivated for the tubers under the name Chufa.
Specimen PANAMA: east of Pacora, ca. 25 m., Woodson, Allen L& Seibert 755; Point Chame, Hitchcock 8i66.
Elevation 25 m
 
 
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